Counting The Ways is the debut album from Teotima, a 14 piece spiritual jazz ensemble from London. Guitarist-composer Greg Sanders started
Teotima; taking powerful, elegant but deceptively complex grooves of
West Africa, Cuba and Brazil and adding the sensibility of classic
American soul and funk he brought together a loose collective of
musicians in 2011 to workshop ideas.
As an intrinsically live project, all the individual band members
were key to the project and their improvisation is a central part of the
album. Recorded as-live at London's Fishmarket Studios under the watchful eye of engineer Ben 'Nostalgia 77' Lamdin, the record achieves a synchronicity that only this kind of old-fashioned approach can produce.
One of the most striking things about the record is the huge scope
that it encompasses - the arrangements of Gil Evans and David Axelrod,
grooves reminiscent of Arthur Verocai and the Fania All Stars and the
textures of more modern groups such as The Floating Points Ensemble and
Snarky Puppy.
All of these truly organic facets combine to create a striking
43-minute long debut album from Greg Sanders and his Teotima Ensemble.
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